Country France Consecrated 1869 Functional status Active Phone +33 1 58 70 07 10 Architect Louis-Jean-Antoine Héret | Denomination Roman Catholic Status Parish Church Opened 1880 Groundbreaking 1863 | |
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Location 20th arrondissement of Paris Address 3 Place de Ménilmontant, 75020 Paris, France Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris Architectural styles Gothic Revival architecture, Romanesque Revival architecture Similar Belleville - Paris, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Saint‑Jean‑Baptiste‑de‑Belleville, Eglise St Germain de Charo, Parc de Belleville | ||
The Church of Our Lady of the Holy Cross of Ménilmontant (French: Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant) is a parish church on Ménilmontant, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
History
Prior to the 19th century, the hamlet of Ménilmontant depended on the parish church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville. Responding to population growth in the neighbourhood, the parish priest ordered the construction of a chapel in the rue de la Mare in 1823. In 1847 the chapel was designated a parish.
Construction of the present structure began in 1863, following the plans of Héret. Consecration occurred in 1869, though the building was yet incomplete.
During the Paris Commune, the church was appropriated as a political club. In a meeting held in the church on 6 May 1871, the Commune voted to execute the Archbishop of Paris and his fellow hostages.
The construction was completed in 1880.